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INSIDE THE GLOBAL JIHAD. How I Infiltrated al Qaeda and was Abandoned by Western Intelligence.
Omar Nasiri
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Hardcover. Who is Omar Nasiri? Why does he matter? This book presents the true story - attested by specialists in international espionage and security - of the man who infiltrated Al Qaeda in Europe, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Num Pages: 320 pages, maps. BIC Classification: JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 165 x 24. Weight in Grams: 674.
Who is Omar Nasiri? Why does he matter? What makes his story worth telling? In the early 1990s, Nasiri, a Moroccan brought up in Europe, fell in with a gang of North African Islamist extremists who were planning attacks, raising money, and buying weapons and explosives. The DGSE, France's foreign espionage arm, recruited Nasiri as an informer - routine, workaday stuff at first, but his talents for dissimulation meant he became increasingly useful to his handlers. After proving himself to his superiors in Paris, they set him a seemingly impossible task: to infiltrate Al Qaeda's training camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781850658610
SKU
V9781850658610
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About Omar Nasiri
Gordon Corera, the BBC's security correspondent, provides an introduction to Omar Nasiri's memoir.
Reviews for INSIDE THE GLOBAL JIHAD. How I Infiltrated al Qaeda and was Abandoned by Western Intelligence.
A chillingly detailed portrait of life inside the Afghan training camps. Omar Nasiri's memoir offers a unique insider's perspective on the crucial years during which a loosely connected group of regional Islamist movements coalesced into Al Qaeda's global jihad.
Ahmed Rashid, author of the no. 1 New York Times bestseller, 'Taliban' A terrific book. Omar Nasiri offers a groundbreaking account of the process by which young men became mujahidin. His description of life inside the Afghan training camps is more complete than any intelligence we had available to us in the 1990s. It indicates a level of professionalism within the camps that we were only able to infer from the fragmentary accounts available to us
and which policymakers dismissed at the time as CIA scare-mongering. As a micro-level description of the whole training process within the camps, Nasiri's account has, I believe, no peer in the publications of the American intelligence community.
Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA's Osama bin Laden Unit and author of 'Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror'
Ahmed Rashid, author of the no. 1 New York Times bestseller, 'Taliban' A terrific book. Omar Nasiri offers a groundbreaking account of the process by which young men became mujahidin. His description of life inside the Afghan training camps is more complete than any intelligence we had available to us in the 1990s. It indicates a level of professionalism within the camps that we were only able to infer from the fragmentary accounts available to us
and which policymakers dismissed at the time as CIA scare-mongering. As a micro-level description of the whole training process within the camps, Nasiri's account has, I believe, no peer in the publications of the American intelligence community.
Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA's Osama bin Laden Unit and author of 'Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror'